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“He’s just somebody you look, and then you look away, because he’s not doing nothing but the average stuff. You know what I’m saying? There’s nothing exciting about him,” says Ramsey, before taking a deep breath.

Still dismayed, Ramsey tells the reporters, “I knew something was wrong when a little, pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms.”

If you were given one year and an unlimited budget to squeeze in as many great events in as many countries around the world, where would be the places to be? I personally would like to go to Carnival and Oktoberfest. Mardi Gras is way way way too packed. However, it would be cool to have the dough to get one of them balconies on Bourbon Street and just throw beads to … Read the rest

It’s the holidays, and the time for giving is upon us. Everywhere, you can find organizations, as well as people like Ed Young, encouraging people to give to those less fortunate. Donating a t-shirt or couch to the Salvation Army or Goodwill can be like treasure to someone who really needs it. Unfortunately, what some people decide to donate are so strange they can’t even be used. Here are five oddities people are giving away:

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After earning a medical degree, John Stith Pemberton served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and it was his life-threatening wound that sparked his quest in creating Coke. Pemberton had become addicted to morphine, and sought a way to combat this addiction.

The original Coca-Cola prototype was both alcoholic and coked-up

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In 1885, Pemberton began marketing a beverage called “Pemberton’s French Wine Coca,” a mix … Read the rest

Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a next generation user interface which can accurately detect the users finger and what it is touching, creating an interactive touchscreen-like system, using objects in the real word.

“We think paper and many other objects could be manipulated by touching them, as with a touchscreen. This system doesn’t use any special hardware; it consists of

That car rendered from what looks like vector graphics from an old-school arcade game is a wire-frame sculpture by artist Benedict Radcliffe. And we mean an actual frame made of wires.

Reportedly, it received a ticket for being illegally parked, though if we had been there we’d have quickly gotten another ticket for climbing inside, picking it up and running down the street making engine sounds.

If you’ve ever dreamt of soaring through the air like a superhero, you’re not alone. Dreams of flying­ have captivated human imagination since prehistoric times. Even with the advent of aircraft and the increasing availability of air travel, the ancient question stays with us: What if we could simply spread our arms ­and fly like a bird?
For centuries, early flight pioneers tried to achieve this very feat by attaching artificial … Read the rest